Obamerika It was fashionable among leftist revolutionaries
in the 1960s to label our country "Amerika," the German spelling
meant to recall Adolf Hitler and indicate that the United States was a
"fascist" state. With the dramatic shift toward government takeover
of the private sector and the attendant diminishing of constitutional
rights being instituted by our new president's administration, it might
be time to take a page from the left's playbook and ask, "Are we
now living in Obamerika?"

Did We Elect a Beta Male As President? We're all somewhat familiar with the body language
dogs display when they greet each other. The dominant alpha male approaches
directly, asserting his authority, while the beta male genuflects, crouches,
tucks his tail, and may even end up on his back, exposing his neck in
acquiescence, making sure the alpha male knows he has no intention of
challenging him. With his "we will extend a hand if you are willing
to unclench your fist" opening to the world's dictators, the president
is exhibiting classic beta male behavior, in essence rolling over on his
back and exposing his throat to them to make sure they know he has no
intention of challenging their authority.

B-O Fiddles While the World Burns President Obama has declared by his actions
that such initiatives as radically reforming America's health care system,
dramatically reducing our so-called "greenhouse gas" emissions,
closing Club Gitmo, and lobbying for Chicago to host the 2016 Olympic
Games are at the top of his priority list. In the meantime, he temporizes
on a decision about troop levels in Afghanistan, despite the fact that
American soldiers are increasingly at risk in that unstable war zone,
and he falls back on a strategy that has proven to be a non-starter with
Iran while that country comes rapidly closer to having the capability,
not only to attack our ally Israel with nuclear weapons but to shoot down
Israeli warplanes in the event of their launching a pre-emptive strike
against Iranian nuclear facilities.

"Step Off, Barack!" Barack Obama has bowed down in obeisance to
Saudi King Abdullah. He's delighted Vladimir Putin and Mahmoud Ahmadinehad
by throwing our Eastern European allies under the bus when he caved in
to Russia's demands that we scrap the long-range missile defense system.
And his FCC "diversity" czar, Mark Lloyd, has all but awarded
the medal of freedom to Hugo Chavez. Despite this, like George Costanza
- who in one "Seinfeld" episode tried his damnedest to ingratiate
himself with Elaine's adventurer boyfriend, Tony - all Obama has gotten
in return for his spineless pandering is a resounding, "Step off!"

Obama's Slow-Genocide Health
Care Initiative One of the aspects of Obama's proposed overhaul
of our health care system that has not been brought to light has to do
with the fundamental reason why he wants the state to decide when to deny
health care to seniors, and it has nothing to do with saving money. The
reason is much more insidious than that. The President and his agenda-driven
leftist cohorts need a way to thin the ranks of a group of voters who
are adamantly opposed to his agenda, and the best way to do that is to
kill them off over time by denying them the health care that might keep
them alive. And the best way to do that is to appoint government agents
to "consult" with seniors about end-of-life decisions and, ultimately,
to decide who is eligible (or not eligible) to receive life-extending
therapy.

ABC To Cancel Further Episodes of
Obama Show? ABC executives are reported to be considering
cancelling "The Barack Obama Show" after its pilot episode,
which aired in mid-June, garnered a dismal 1.2 in the ratings war. The
premiere of NBC's "The Philanthropist," one of the network shows
against which Obama's "special" was competing, garnered a 2.0,
while a rerun of "CSI:NY," whose star, Gary Sinise, is a strong
conservative, grabbed a respectable 1.8.

When Tax-and_Spend Becomes Confiscate-and-Squander To call the current gang that has commandeered
Washington D.C. tax-and-spend Democrats is to insult tax-and-spend Democrats
everywhere. "If only," is a phrase I'm hearing more and more,
as in "If only Tax-and-Spend were all we had to deal with."
What the Obama adminstration is doing is much more accurately described
as Confiscate-and-Squander.

The Real Reason We Should Be Worried
About Sonia Sotomayor As compelling as her overt racism and her record
of having had 60% of her decisions reversed on appeal are as reasons for
Sonia Sotomayor's disqualification from consideration as a Supreme Court
judge, there's one that is even more troubling, and that is that she seems
to have emerged directly out of one of the leftist "bibles"
of the 1930s. I'm speaking of the book Toward Soviet America by
communist labor leader William Z. Foster.

Russia Redux It's time for us to take the lessons of history
seriously, and to recognize that we're in the clutches of an administration
whose bending of the law and science to its own ends parallels those of
one of the most murderous tyrants this planet has ever known, a despot
in whose footsteps Barack Obama seems to be hellbent on following.

Party Of One In this case, the words "party of one"
describe not a dining patron unlikely to produce a big tip, but a President
who, almost literally, can't see beyond himself to understand the implications
of the things he mandates for the people he presumably leads. Our President
is, in fact, a party of one, incapable of leadership, capable only of
bullying the American people based on the regurgitated leftist ideological
claptrap he's absorbed as he bounced around during his formative years.

Put . .
. Down . . . the Caterpillar! In a move that is becoming increasingly familiar,
the Obama administration again reversed its stated policy of not prosecuting
members of the FBI, the CIA, and the armed forces for acts committed while
following legal orders and policies which were in place at the time.

President Goodwrench Busts a Move In between television appearances in which he's
insulted Special Olympians on the Jay Leno Show and drawn the scorn of
Duke Men's Basketball Coach Mike Krzyszewski for paying more attention
to his NCAA tournament brackets than to the economy, President Goodwrench
has been busy trying to one-up Hugo Chavez and show the world what a real
martinet can do to cripple an economy. The good news is that he's going
to put the full faith and credit of the United States behind the warranty
on your Malibu.

The Petraeus FactorGeneral David Petraeus, the man who turned around
the War in Iraq, might have one more country to save from a tyrannical
dictator before he retires. I'm not speaking of Iran or Venezuela; I'm
speaking of the United States.

Petraeus For PresidentGeneral David Petraeus, the man who turned around
the War in Iraq, might have one more country to save from a tyrannical
dictator before he retires. I'm not speaking of Iran or Venezuela; I'm
speaking of the United States.

Is Obama's Intent to Cripple American
Capitalism?The title of Michael J. Boskin's March 6 Wall
Street Journal Op Ed piece proposes that "Obama's Radicalism
Is Killing the Dow." We might further ask, "Is that, in fact,
the President's intention?"

Spare Change We Can Believe In The stimulus plan is "shovel-ready"
in the same way the stalls in a horse barn are shovel-ready. The bill
badly needed to be mucked out before it came up for a vote, but nobody
seemed to want to do the responsible thing and even so much as read it,
let alone clean it up, before they approved it.

What Liberalism Is Not Most of us have wrongly concluded that Liberalism
is nothing more than a fundamentalist religion, a rigid set of beliefs
its adherents follow blindly in their ongoing attempts to eliminate other
groups of people who do not share their ideology. But while in one of
its guises liberalism is certainly a religion, it is much more than that.
Like Islam, it is a complete code of life, including social, legal, scientific,
and educational components no less stultifying and tyrannical than those
of Islam.

Mutiny On the 'Bama Only a few weeks out of port, the Good Ship
Obama, which set sail under the flag of bipartisan cooperation, seems
to be foundering as First Mate Nancy Pelosi goes against her Captain's
stated intentions by ignoring the wishes of about 40 percent of the crew
under her command. Because Barack Obama let the bill get out of his control,
he faces the political equivalent of mutiny by his own party.

Reasserting
Conservative Principles It's not necessarily the case that conservatives
have abandoned the principles we know in our minds and hearts we must
uphold if our country is to regain its moral and political footing. What
has been missing, though, is leadership below the Presidential level that
recognizes the ever-present need for us to mount a principled opposition
against the impending "state creep" that threatens our own democracy
and democracies around the world.

Why Chicago Can't Read The appointment by Barack Obama of Arne Duncan
as Secretary of Education is notable for many reasons, not the least of
which is that Duncan has served as Superintendent of Chicago Schools,
only 17 percent of whose eighth grade students are reading at or above
their grade level.

Yon Nancy Hath a Lean and Hungry
Look: The Coming Democratic Power Struggle One of the real ironies of the Obama campaign
is that left-leaning Democrats, who so relentlessly pursue an anti-Christian
agenda, have insisted on comparing the President-elect to Jesus Christ.
The worry is that once Obama takes office, his own Party is going to have
to impeach him on the grounds that electing Our Savior to the Presidency
violates the principle of separation of church and state.